http://sleep-facts.com Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:27:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've all heard the mainstays of how to fight insomnia. Most seem rather obvious. Don't drink caffeine before bedtime. Wake up at the same time every day. Put your concerns out of your mind. To me these suggestions might as well simply say, "To cure ... http://sleep-facts.com/2007/02/06/get-the-balance-right-10-novel-approaches-to-curing-insomnia/ Breathing is such a natural, automatic thing. You usually aren't even consciously paying attention to doing it. Imagine if all of the sudden you just stopped breathing and found yourself unable to take a breath for 10 seconds. Now imagine this happening dozens of times per hour. ... http://sleep-facts.com/2007/01/31/sleep-apnea-the-silent-killer/ When you don't sleep for long periods you really do become a different person. Or I should say that you start acting in ways that are incongruous with your normal behavior. But why is this? We still don't really know why we sleep at all. There are certainly ... http://sleep-facts.com/2007/01/26/sleep-deprivation-walking-zombies-arent-good-at-solving-problems/ Sleep sex is a rare condition that causes unwanted sexual behavior during sleep. This condition ranges from disruptive moaning to unwanted sexual advances on their partner during sleep. Originally discovered by Stanford researchers in 2002 it is believed that this condition results from glitches in brain waves during ... http://sleep-facts.com/2007/01/21/sleep-sex-the-sleeping-disorder-you-never-knew-about/ Dreams involve three amazing evolutionary adaptations - suspension of disbelief, long term memory suppression and inhibition of motor control. Each one of these adaptations is essential in order for dreams not to make us feel completely crazy either during or after dreams take place. Suspension of disbelief In life when things take ... http://sleep-facts.com/2007/01/16/the-three-amazing-evolutionary-adaptations-of-dreams/